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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastor of the congregation there.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastour of the congregation there.
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655
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Magistrates are called Gods; And God who hath honoured them by putting his name upon them, expects that they should honour him, by imitating or acting like unto him. What a Magistrate doth he should do like God, he should do it so that every one may be convinced that God is in him and with him of a truth. As God takes care of the widow, and of the fatherless, so should he. God is known by this Title; A father of the fatherless, and a Judge of the widow, is God in his holy habitation (Psal. 68.5.) That is, in Heaven; for that's the habitation of his holiness, and of his glory, there he dwells, Judging for the widow, and the fatherless; And as that is the special business (as it were) of God in Heaven, so they who are Gods on earth, ought to make it their special business to judge for the widow and the fatherless. Hence we find the widow and the fatherless commended by name to the care of the Magistrate; The fatherless have no natural parents living, or none near of kin remaining to maintain and defend them, therefore the Magistrate, who is (pater patriae) the common father of his Country, should be their Foster-Father. They who want power are the charge, & should be the special care of those in power. Thus they are commanded (Psa. 82.3, 4.) Defend the poor & fatherless, do justice to the afflicted & needy, deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. Here's their work; and the neglect of this work (how busy so ever Magistrates are about other work) is often complained of aloud in Scripture, as a crying sin, as a sin that ruins Nations, and draws down public Judgements upon a people. (Isaiah 1.17.) Cease to do evil, learn to do well, seek Judgement, relieve the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow: And at the 23 verse; They judge not the fatherless, neither doth the Cause of the widow come unto them. Again (Jer. 5.28.) They judge not the Cause of the fatherless. It is a sin not to judge any mans Cause, not to judge the Cause of the richest, of the greatest; yet it is more sinful not to judge the Cause of the widow and the fatherless. And when he saith; They judge not the Cause, &c. the meaning is, they judge not the Cause of the fatherless impartially and righteously. And indeed, he that doth not judge righteously, doth not judge at all;